Late Antique

Famous quotes containing the words late and/or antique:

    “The poem refreshes life so that we share,
    For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
    Belief in an immaculate beginning
    And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
    To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
    From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)